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Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America

Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America

Beckjord, Sarah H.

Hardcover

Series: Penn State Romance Studies, Book 2

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0271032782
ISBN13: 9780271032788
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 5 2007
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.

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